Powell Industries is a quality grid business priced too richly at 57x trailing earnings after a 175% gain this year. Its custom medium-voltage switchgear for data centers comes from few qualified vendors; orders nearly doubled to $490M, backlog is $1.8B, it won a record $400M+ data center contract, and gross margins rose from 16% to nearly 30%. But the valuation needs it to become a capacity-constrained AI power platform, and if AI capex slows in 2027, the multiple compresses first. x.com



